# The man accused of killing two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, DC, earlier this year, has pleaded not guilty. Thirty-one-year-old Elias Rodriguez shot and killed Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as they were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in May. He is facing nine charges, including murder of a foreign official […]
# The Constitutional Court has granted AfriForum permission to act as a friend of the court in a case regarding the powers and jurisdiction of the South African Human Rights Commission. In 2024, the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that the commission’s findings are not enforceable in themselves and can only be enforced by a […]
# Golf: South Africa’s Michael Hollick carded a five-under-par 65 in the second round of the Sunbet Challenge, to take the lead by one stroke on nine under par at the Wild Coast Sun Country Club in Port Edward. South Africa’s Jacques de Villiers and England’s Joe Knox are both one shot behind the leader […]
# Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating allegations of corruption and political interference in the police service has moved to clarify confusion around the witness list. This follows reports that a summons has been issued for National Deputy Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya to appear before the committee next week. Committee chairperson, Molapi Lekganyane, says they have […]
# The ousted SA Tourism board members have filed an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria to overturn Tourism minister Patricia de Lille’s decision to dissolve the structure. The minister has defended her decision to dissolve the board, citing unlawful conduct, procedural violations, and reckless financial management as grounds for intervention. In their court […]
# Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91. He co-founded the luxury fashion house that bore his name in 1975 with his partner Sergio Galeotti. Armani was seen as a pioneer, elevating red carpet fashion to what it is today. The Armani Group has described him as a tireless driving […]
# Die burgemeester van eThekwini, Cyril Xaba, en die LUR van Vervoer in KwaZulu-Natal, Siboniso Duma, doen ‘n beroep op die leierskap in die taxi-bedryf om hulle beplande staking te kanselleer en om dienste in Clermont en KwaDabeka te hervat. Taxi-operateurs in Durban het vandag met ‘n twee-dag staking begin. Dit volg na weke se […]
# Die Nasionale Tesourie sê sy slimmeterprogram ter waarde van twee-miljard-rand kan help om Eskom se stygende munisipale skuld van meer as 100-miljard-rand te verminder. Verlede jaar is meer as 67-duisend slimmeters in agt munisipaliteite aangebring, met ‘n verdere 77-duisend-780 wat vanjaar in nog elf munisipaliteite ingestel sal word. Die Tesourie beoog om teen die […]
# Atletiek: Die Universiteit van die Vrystaat sê hy vier met trots die insluiting van verskeie Kovsies-atlete en -oudstudente in Suid-Afrika se span vir die Wêreldatletiekkampioenskap in Japan. Mthi Mthimkulu, wat tans aan die unversiteit studeer, verteenwoordig die Kovsie Atletiekklub, saam met Miné de Klerk en Wayde van Niekerk. Voormalige Kovsie-atlete Colette Uys en Victor […]
